The Keeper of the Isis Light
10 best books like The Keeper of the Isis Light (Monica Hughes): Tea with the Black Dragon, ttyl, Tunnels of Time: A Moose Jaw Adventure, Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen, Mirror of Danger, The Outside Circle: A Graphic Novel, ttfn, The Great Escape, The Ferengi Rules of Acquisition (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), The Light-Years Beneath My Feet
| Author | R.A. MacAvoy |
| ISBN | 1585861979 |
Martha Macnamara knows that her daughter Elizabeth is in trouble, she just doesn't know what kind. Mysterious phone calls from San Francisco at odd hours of the night are the only contact she has had with Elizabeth for years. Now, Elizabeth has sent her a plane ticket and reserved a room for her at San Francisco's...
| Author | Lauren Myracle |
| ISBN | 0810987880 |
On the first day of tenth grade, best friends Maddie (mad maddie), Angela (SnowAngel), and Zoe (zoegirl) vow not to let school stupidness get them down... or split them apart. But as the weeks pass and the instant messages accumulate, it's clear that tenth grade will be a roller coaster ride of boy temptation,...
| Author | Mary Harelkin Bishop |
Designated an Our Choice title by the Canadian Children's Book Centre.
Thirteen-year-old Andrea Talbot doesn't want to go to Moose Jaw for her cousin Vanessa's wedding. She's going to miss a really cool bike trip and she's not taking it very well.
At a family dinner party in a local restaurant,...
Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen
| Author | Mary Norris |
| ISBN | 1324001275 |
The Comma Queen returns with a buoyant book about language, love, and the wine-dark sea.
In her New York Times bestseller Between You & Me, Mary Norris delighted readers with her irreverent tales of pencils and punctuation in The New Yorker’s celebrated copy department. In Greek to...
| Author | Pamela Sykes |
| ISBN | 0671411349 |
Originally published in Britain as Come Back, Lucy.
The mirror looked ordinary. It had a heavy gold frame and leaned against the wall in the attic. But when Lucy first looked into the mirror, a strange thing happened. Another girl's face appeared beside hers, laughing. Whirling around in surprise...
| Author | Patti Laboucane-Benson |
| ISBN | 1770899375 |
In this important graphic novel, two Aboriginal brothers surrounded by poverty, drug abuse, and gang violence, try to overcome centuries of historic trauma in very different ways to bring about positive change in their lives.
Pete, a young Aboriginal man wrapped up in gang violence, lives...
| Author | Lauren Myracle |
| ISBN | 0810992795 |
After everything they've been through together, Angela, Maddie, and Zoe know they'll be friends till the end--but sometimes the fates (or parents) have other plans.
With sophomore year and its troubles behind them, the winsome threesome is on cruise control, enjoying the well-earned perks...
| Author | Emily Bearn |
| ISBN | 1405238968 |
I listened on Audible. The reader is excellent, but the recording is a bit soft, or perhaps his voice is too low to listen along with a running mixer in the kitchen, for example. :) I liked this sequel better than the first book, which I really enjoyed. These are really sweet. I totally relate to Nutmeg! lol....
The Ferengi Rules of Acquisition (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
| Author | Ira Steven Behr |
| ISBN | 0671529366 |
The Ferengi are greedy, avaricious, ruthless, cowardly and completely unscrupulous. For centuries the famous Ferengi Rules of Acquisition have been the guiding principles of the galaxy's most successful entrepreneurs. These 285 Rules of Acquisition range from, #1 "Once you have their money,...
| Author | Alan Dean Foster |
| ISBN | 0345461304 |
Four entirely different species have been kidnapped by the Vilenjji to be sold as slaves/pets/novelties. They are rescued by the Sessrimathe of Seremathenn. Now all they have to do is figure out how they can be returned to their own home worlds. Marcus Walker and a Chicago street dog named George who...
| Author | Emily Bearn |
| ISBN | 0316085995 |
Tumtum and Nutmeg just want to live out their comfy lives in peace, unbothered by anything as distracting as an adventure. But the holidays are upon them, and it seems to be the time of year when Arthur and Lucy, the disheveled human children of Rose Cottage, and bumbling veteran hero General Marchmouse...
| Author | Emily Bearn |
| ISBN | 1405233869 |
I really loved the way this book started out, and enjoyed the author's use of language, but for some reason I felt let down when it came to the battle against Aunt Ivy, or the Charge of the Bright Brigade as it was known in the story. Too much military jargon for my liking, and it was an unfamiliar theme for my...
The Other Side of the Island
| Author | Allegra Goodman |
| ISBN | 1595141952 |
From New York Times bestselling author Allegra Goodman comes a post apocalyptic novel about love, loss, and the power of human choice. Honor and her parents have been reassigned to live on Island 365 in the Tranquil Sea. Life is peaceful there, the color of the sky is regulated by Earth Mother, a corporation...
